Irland har beslutat att skicka en ny ambassadör till Vatikanen, tre år efter att landet stängde sin ambassad i stadsstaten efter ett bråk kring en utredning av sexuella övergrepp.

Irland har beslutat att skicka en ny ambassadör till Vatikanen, tre år efter att landet stängde sin ambassad i stadsstaten efter ett bråk kring en utredning av sexuella övergrepp.

sciencehabit writes: The magma fueling the volcanoes of Hawaii and Yellowstone National Park pipes up from deep inside the planet. Scientists have struggled to understand why there are hot spots there, so far from the grinding tectonic plate boundaries at which volcanoes normally appear. New research chalks the mystery up to 'dark magma': deep underground pockets of red-hot molten rock that siphon energy from Earth's core. If the team is right, its work could illuminate a key part of Earth's geology. These plumes are one of the most important things to understand because the movement of heat powers many processes on the planet. For one, Earth's magnetic field depends on how the core spins and flows inside the planet. As a result, the way heat flows from the core to the mantle could potentially affect the way Earth's magnetic field evolves over time.

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sciencehabit writes: The magma fueling the volcanoes of Hawaii and Yellowstone National Park pipes up from deep inside the planet. Scientists have struggled to understand why there are hot spots there, so far from the grinding tectonic plate boundaries at which volcanoes normally appear. New research chalks the mystery up to 'dark magma': deep underground pockets of red-hot molten rock that siphon energy from Earth's core. If the team is right, its work could illuminate a key part of Earth's geology. These plumes are one of the most important things to understand because the movement of heat powers many processes on the planet. For one, Earth's magnetic field depends on how the core spins and flows inside the planet. As a result, the way heat flows from the core to the mantle could potentially affect the way Earth's magnetic field evolves over time.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

European Space Agency hope to make first-ever landing of spacecraft on comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Four armed men killed in strike in area of North Waziristan suspected to be stronghold of Taliban.

En hotfull vinterkris närmar sig för drygt en miljon flyktingar i norra Irak och Syrien, varnar UNHCR. Samtidigt har en gnutta hopp tänts sedan Syriensändebudet Staffan de Mistura lagt fram ett förslag om ”frysning” av striderna i Aleppo.

An anonymous reader writes: Analyzing more than 2,000 Stuxnet files collected over a two-year period, Kaspersky Lab can identify the first victims of the Stuxnet worm. Initially security researchers had no doubt that the whole attack had a targeted nature. The code of the Stuxnet worm looked professional and exclusive; there was evidence that extremely expensive zero-day vulnerabilities were used. However, it wasn't yet known what kind of organizations were attacked first and how the malware ultimately made it right through to the uranium enrichment centrifuges in the particular top secret facilities. Kaspersky Lab analysis sheds light on these questions.

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Storsatsning på fritids, mindre klasser och mer pengar till skolorna med tuffast förutsättningar. Där hamnar de nya satsningar på skolan, 167 miljoner kronor, som den nya rödgrönrosa Stockholmsmajoriteten gör i kommande budget. Därmed går närmare hälften av Stockholmarnas kommande skattehöjning till skolan.